Using a custom domain for your Dropbox public files URLs

This article shows you how to use a custom domain in place of those ugly, long Dropbox User Content public folder URLs.I often use Dropbox’s Public folder to share files with others. For example, this morning I sent an archive of RaceSplitter’s press assets to a race organizer:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/91582/racesplitter-assets.zip

As I was about to send off that URL to the organizer, I found myself wishing for something a little shorter, and bit more elegant.

My dafacto.com domain is hosted at Dreamhost. Dreamhost offers the ability to redirect a domain to a URL, and so I decided to setup the following sub-domain redirect: